Inspiration & Reflection

For many years I have kept journals with quotes and passages that were inspirational to me. I return to these journals when I need comfort or guidance. For birthdays and special occasions, I look through my journals to find the right quote for a loved one. Now I get to share them with you. Enjoy and I hope it will motivate you to start your own inspiration journal.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of it’s furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

— Rumi

Hostility keeps us tied to the abuses of the past.

— Anonymous

If our eye is always attuned to where we feel broken we will be unable to see where we are already whole.

— Legacy of The Heart

The source of suffering is constant craving and wanting.

— Buddha

People who are wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.

— Self Realization Fellowship

Just because you’re a wanderer doesn’t mean you’re aimless.

— Mona Lisa Smile

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

— Diane Lane

Letting go is not painful, it’s the resistance to letting go that is.

— Anonymous

There’s beauty in the breakdown. 

— Garden State

We’re either full of love or full of fear. 

— Albert Einstein

To remain connected with the truth that sets us free we must go through an internal hell by remaining present and conscious even through terrible circumstances that we didn’t invite and don’t deserve.

— Anonymous

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

— Wayne Dyer

Bear with everything as the earth bares with all that lives on it.

— Anonymous

Mediocrity is not living in the spark of your soul. Use the darkness to see your own luminosity. The spark of divinity in you. Let your spark light up a dark time or world. It will help you and the world to heal. Through the dark night you are healed. You become the wounded healer.

— ‘Dark Night of The Soul’ by Thomas Moore

You can’t find peace by avoiding life.

— The Hours

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

— Charles Dubois

Find out what a person fears most and that is where they will develop next.

— Carl Jung

We go on. Because it is the hard thing to do and we owe ourselves the difficulty.

— Nikkie Giovanni

The unfolding of my life is an issue of faith.

— Anonymous

Gratitude is an action that dissolves fear.

— Anonymous

Evolve or die.

— ‘A New Earth’ by Eckhart Tolle

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The longest journey is the journey inward.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Measure your life in love. 

— Rent

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

— Shawshank Redemption

Just because someone is a little banged up doesn’t mean you throw a whole life away.

— Seabiscuit

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

— Andre Gide

Well-behaved women never make history. 

— Eunice Shriver

The light is too painful for those who choose to stay in the dark. 

— The Power of Now

Be with those who help your being.

— Rumi

I want to be like the waves on the sea…like the clouds in the wind…but I am me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin, I’ll shake the sky like a hundred violins.

— Sandra Cisneros

Give away the fire not the oil. 

— Anonymous

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

— Alice Walker

You can uncover wisdom in the murky depths of pain.

— Anonymous

Falling apart or falling into place? Breakdown or breakthrough?

— Anonymous

We are only capable of receiving what we are able to give.

— Anonymous

Faith is not simply a patience, which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather it is a spirit, which bears things ... with blazing serene hope.

— Corazon Aquino

In the darkest times the eyes can see.

— Anonymous

The best way out is always through. 

— Robert Frost

The only things to take away from the past are wisdom & love.

— Tarot Card

Out of our vulnerabilities will come our strength.

— Freud

You are your actions not your thoughts.

— Anonymous

My life is my message. 

— Gandhi

What we resist persists.

— Carl Jung

Follow your bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to give up the live we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. 